Listening to several shopkeepers recounting their experiences, Lin Yanqing was so furious that she could no longer suppress her anger and slapped the table hard.
"This is simply unheard of! Where are the officers and soldiers? Liu Jie is also a civilian! How can he use officers and soldiers!"
Lin Yanqing's anger frightened the four shopkeepers, and they all bent down and lowered their heads. Shopkeeper Zhou lowered his head and looked at Bai Yiran, receiving Bai Yiran's subtle glance.
Shopkeeper Zhou straightened up and cupped his hands and said: "I don't know, I just see that Liu Jie is very familiar with those officers and soldiers. I have also seen Liu Jie and those officers and soldiers going in and out of Wangyou Pavilion. Liu Jie is often accompanied by a beautiful woman. The woman is from Wangyou Pavilion."
Lin Yanqing frowned and asked, "Where is Wangyou Pavilion?"
Shopkeeper Zhou: "If I tell you, Taifu, that Wangyou Pavilion... is a brothel."
Lin Yanqing felt blood rushing to her head. How dare Mrs. Liu be so deceitful! He knew the truth but did not punish her severely, and even helped to lie that the prostitute was Liu Jie's cousin! If Liu was not involved in this matter, how could he let Liu Jie off so lightly? If Liu Jie and other civilians were not supported by the Liu family, how could they have ordered the officers and soldiers to be mobilized, and how could they have been detained and disappeared?
Seeing Lin Yanqing's furious look, Lin Jinyan pulled Lin Jinan forward to comfort him, and Lin Siyuan and Gu Hongzhang also expressed comfort before Lin Yanqing calmed down.
Lin Yanqing waved his hand and asked Lin Jinyan and Lin Jinan to sit back in their seats. He picked up the tea cup and drank a large cup of tea before suppressing the anger.
Putting down the tea cup, he raised his hand towards Gu Hongzhang and said, "Brother Gu is laughing at you. I will investigate this matter to the end and will never tolerate it."
Gu Hongzhang: "You don't need to be so concerned about the matter now. We are all elderly people, so we should take care of ourselves. If I didn't believe you and Siyuan's character, I would have sent someone to investigate myself."
Lin Yanqing nodded and handed over again: "Thank you, Brother Gu, for your trust."
Gu Hongzhang: "I didn't know you were coming today. Qingyun and Zhou'er Chen'er have gone to the military camp. If they were here, they would only be angry with Liu Jie and the chief envoy. They would never suspect you because of these unscrupulous people. Go on your body."
Bai Yiran smiled and said: "We will not doubt the character of Taifu and brother-in-law. It is a coincidence that these shopkeepers came to visit today, and Taifu wanted to keep them for questioning. Otherwise, if I questioned them alone, I would definitely You can't ask so deeply, how can you know such secrets. If you didn't know this, you would have thought that these shopkeepers were arranged by the General's Mansion and deliberately showed it to the Taifu and brother-in-law."
Lin Siyuan cupped his hands and said: "My sister-in-law is joking. If these shopkeepers are really found by my sister-in-law, wouldn't it be easier to send them directly to the government or the Lin family? Even if they are really found by my sister-in-law, Siyuan can only be grateful."
Lin Yanqing also said: "This means that those who do evil will be punished by death. The General's Office trusts the Lin family so much, how can our Lin family think about the General's Office so much."
Bai Yiran's demeanor was generous: "I know that Taifu and my brother-in-law are open-minded people. They were just joking about this kind of coincidence, so you two don't need to take it to heart."
The Lin family father and son said no, and asked the shopkeepers if they knew anything about Liu Jie.
Shopkeeper Chen said respectfully: "I just happened to see Liu Shou and Shopkeeper Liu going to Sihai Bank once by chance. The other villains don't know about it."
Shopkeeper Zhou: "Before I was fired, I heard Liu Jie talking about the house he wanted to buy. As for what happened next, I don't know after I was fired."
